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We have turned our brew house into a brewer’s playground with the introduction of our Craft Beer Exploration Series called Mad & Noisy Brewing, named after the two rivers that merge and flow through the village of Creemore. Hops & Bolts India Pale Lager is the first release in our ever changing series of imaginative, innovative, and delicious craft concoctions. A Czech twist on an English IPA it takes the best components of a lager and an ale and rivets them together to build a beer much greater than the sum of its parts.

L: A cloudy amber color. One finger of off white head. Lacing is good.

S: A a fair bit of sulfur and baker's yeast. A bit of citrus. Caramel malt, a bit bready.

T: Pretty malt dominated although a bit a citrus shows its head too. Caramel and cereal notes are at the forefront. I get grapefruit, a bit of grassiness, and just the slightest hint of orange. Bitterness is far less powerful than I would expect 60ibus to be; actually a bit sweet. I don't get the 'chocolate' advertised on the can. A Pretty easily quaff.

O: A pretty good beer. I don't know if I would label it as extremely hoppy, it's more like a decently hoppy amber lager. Still nice but nothing I would really care to drink again, and it's passable in the grander scheme of things.

Pours a dark amber with a light head around 1", stays for about 30sec. Not a whole lot of carbonation. First smell gives off a slight fruit and hoppy aroma. Tasting has a crisp beginning and a bit of that hoppy bitterness in the finish.

A little too strong on the malt and weak on the hops for my liking, unfortunately in this case it subdues the fruitiness/citrus ambiance that one expects from an India Pale beer and displaces it with a touch of sourness. A difficult beer to get ones palate around, 5.3% a touch on the light side for an India Pale beer.